ARGONAUT BOOKS

This is the first scholarly edition of Auden's 'The Sea and the Mirror', which is at the same time a commentary on and sequel to Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'. It provides extensive annotations and quotations from unpublished drafts, allowing the creative process to be followed. Reviews "The Sea and the Mirror is the most brilliant and unsettling of the four long poems Auden composed during his furiously industrious first decade in America . . . an intriguing mixture of the theatrical and the poetic. . . . [It] represents his most determined and considered attempt to 'gr...Read More